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Re: Lego MindStorm for 10 year-old?
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lugnet.robotics
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Wed, 10 Mar 1999 14:19:54 GMT
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I think you're right about the training of children in troubleshoot/debug.
I think that Mindstorms causes people to put themselves in the place of the
robot when trying to write a program. That's an excellent way to think
about troubleshooting. And it's gratifying to watch your little creation
bump into the door frame and then work out how to get around it.
- Steve
"Mark R. David" wrote:
> Nearly all school programs that I've seen teach kids to "use" computers,
> not program them. I've got to believe that most people reading this
> list find this situation to be as heinous as I do; creating a population
> where Microsoft Word experience is acknowledged as a computer skill.
> We've got to teach them to program (and, IMHO, the greater skill,
> debug).
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| Just this weekend got my 7 yr old daughter involved with Mindstorms "programming". Her quotable response was, "Hey, Dad, programming is fun!" It's well documented that kids respond well to a progammable environment where the results are tangibly (...) (28 years ago, 10-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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